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anti the house in Westhourne-place, nor did he assign that as a reason for wishing not to give evidence be fore the - House of Commons. A second suromoos Was seta him ae far as my recollection serves me. taenk that Mrs. Clarke said she had honourably paid his debtafter she had been sued. I don't recollect corning to my house, nor, tjaa t ground of exam ding him as an evidence. T never recollect, my having sued intention. He never stated to me t ear Wright's testimony was dangerous. Mr. ATTORNE/ GENEItAL declined to cross exa mine Colonel Wardle, and recommended that he aheuld quit the Court. , Mr. ALLEY here observed (when Mr. Attorney , General was about addressing the Jury on the new tastimony adduced) that it would be necessary to call witnesses to the charaaer of Col. Wardle. Lord ELLENBOROUGH never knew of any such oroceeding, Unless it was endeavoured to impeach a witness on his oath, there it was a qKestion of credit. Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL then shortly made some • okervarlooo in the course of which he-desired the Sera to compare the evidence of Mr Stokes with abet of Colonel Wardle, which he . cOntlanded was; f:-oin the manner it; which he delivefed bianself, beta autided to credit than the Colonel's. Ter 'iiie;,s reasons he had wished the latter Gentleman not tq remain in Court, aware that he trust make some ()IA servatierria which . would not be agreeable. 'ALLEY rose to reply, which he did in a very able manner, contrasting the evidence of Colonel. Wardle and Mr. Stokes, and contended that the: Colonel was as crutch entiled to credit as Mr. Stokes, \vat) was' certainly to the full its ireerested a wanesta as the former, for he had _notless than three clients for whom he was swearing. Mr_ Alley then corn-. mented on the evidence, in answer to the observa tieus and comments of the Attorney-General. He expressed his surprise why Mr. Stokes had not been callaei on the former trial. If the charge of not call ing witnesses applied to his client, surely it applied to an equal degree to the defendaets, for,they might' have availed themselves or the testimony of Mr.' Stokes. ~ . . . Lord Chief Justice ELLENBoRoup! - wkth all that jus!iee and candour which so highke r charasterise him, and which form the pecu l ia r feateres',.tifyhe judicial eliarecter of Great Britain, addressed,tia&:.Jury to the full :wing purport :--- Tads is an inditarnent brouOt against three per sons o.vo of them have been witoe.sses on a former trial, the third is Francis Wright. What has been delivered by the forinstr two in evidence on that trial x 3 made a charge against them now. Daniel Wright :appears to have no other connection with this boat ness than as the foreman of his brother; but the peculiar hardship of this case, to which his Lord ship particularly called the attention of the Jury, was theineloding the three under the one indid tnent ; for had they been guilty ot the'perjury which Colonel Wardle had end e a voured that'' day to 'prove, they might each have been proseciat olt without depriving them of that power of if*nde Which the evidence of the other two alone 'afitiadede But •try thus indieling all equally for cOnipiraty, Colonel Wardle stripped them of all the means by which they could manifest their innocence, and his Lord ship expressed his earnest hope, that the subjects of the laud might never be liable to indiaments and prosecutions, which front their very nature and manner would deprive them of the power of defence. i-le then called on the Jury to give the defendants all the advantage of the evidence they bad heretofore given, aid to allow them on this occasion the 'full oete..fis of their oaths, deprived as they were of the power of corning forward that day, by this artful t h ersolidation of them in one indiament. His Lord ship reminded them that the defendants werebrought before them bound and fettered, and unable to tes tify their innocence by any means whatever. He then entered into a detail of the evidence which Mrs. Clarl , ,e nod Mr. Wright had giVen'en the trial alluded'to. He observed that the - Itital. which had been riven to the former on her golfig.fia the coun try, could be only looked on as a fee:fir that evi dence which she was to give, and would most just ly disparage it, and render Colonel Wardle liable to a legit imputatiOn, or subject him to a prosecution thr subornation of evidence. This, his Lord s hip said was a tonus for her testimony'; and; whatever' view's of poptilarity or ambition might have • ac tuated him, Colonel Wardle had,dealt corruptly 'in, the first instance with his vaitties. Hia Lordship expatiated on the circumstance of Colonel Wardle's becoming respensibleao Wright for the furniture; the rejection of one carpet, and choosing another ; Mrs. Clarke's hbserv,ation on it, that since Colonel 'Wardle Wan to pay for it, he might have his choice; Wreath's testimony, that the thing went home in Mr. Wardle's name. To this declared evidence, un contradicted at the time Mr.Wardleop+posed,bL. own testimony alone to-day, in which he said the whole was a fiction. His Lordship remarked on the im probability of a woman like Mrs. Clarke exposing herself qua scrutinizing examination for many nights before the House of Commons, without any hope of other remuneration than the paying a few of her tradesmen's bills. His Lordship recommended de liberation and caution to the Jury, since here evi dence encountered evidence and oath encountered 'each. It appeartcl that in,the dealings with Wright, Colonel Wardle was the ostensible - paymaster, but that'vouched as he was by honour to the public to produce uncontaminated witnesses, it was his espe cial interest to screen this fact. Now, when the de tendant's mouths are Padlocked, you are called up ur to decide against them. What , said his Lor d- s hip, could be the meaning of that triple security, Dodo's bill ? Was it not with a view to conceal meet ? He desired, the Jury to recollect when he rii.ca Colonel Wardle, were they patriotic views, etc t hey motives of public good alone, which ex- Mrs. Clarke so give evidence betere the House of C o alitions ? he said he believed so. COuld it be true, said- his Lordship, that a women of her cite raaer could have been so actuated ? But in cor ruptina the course of Justice, Colonel Wardle had coalleeted the highest misdemeanour. His Lord sta.ed further, that it appeared that Major Dodd ' - had aoaoyed the ceefideuce. of the Bpyal Family ; that tau:salt he did not lend entire assistance to Mr. yet lie saw him daily while be -aela planning a eenspiorey against the brother of his Royal Mas- Ise ; end his Lordship asked could this be a well cast r i wind, could the human affeaious warmly MAI LS. Alit iv ED—I Cadiz ' Waterford. Du s-3 Gottenburili; Cadiz, 2 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWILVE. O'CLOCK. Consols - - - 7oa j Red. Ann. ." - 6911-:c THE SUN. SOLL DICERE. FALSUNI AUDSAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, isog. We have been favoured with the Speech of - Buo- NAPARTE to the Legislative Body.—We are com pelled to submit it to our Readers to-day without cotnment: This speeCh was delivered on the, third inst. " Gentlemen Depties of the Departments to the Legislative Body, " Since your last Session, I have reduced Arra-, on Kid Castile'to submission, as d driven from Ma drirl the fallacious Go% eru,, ent formed by England. I v.aii march. ul;on Cadiz and Lisbon, when I er the neeei-ity of .vading my steps, animate his heart, who could this aft ? It appealee that Wardle, Dodd, and Mrs. Clarke had left town enna. Three months have seen the rise and ternate together ; that while in the country, Wardle and nation of this fourth Punic war , Accustomed to Dodd had been employed taking in writin g the eve. deece which Mrs. Clarke was to give ; no public, no , the devotedness and courage of my armies, I must bonourenle feeling,- no gentlemanly principle! could neverthe)ess, under these circumstances, acknowe incite to, or justify such an action, ,(bese as base it . , ~ the particular proofs of affedion which my i) thus to worm himself into o the secrets of a wo_ 1 'euis' ~ soldiers of Germany have given me. man, and to take them down on pap er. He fattens I on the offel of any thing he can find amiss in the fa- ; ~ The genius of France concluded the English mily of his Sovereign, and thus conies :florally re- 1 army—it has terminated its projeels in the pesti commended before you to -day. His Lordship then ' adverted to the professional talents of the Gentle- I lential marshes of Walcheren. In that important man who opened the prosecution ; and expressed Is period I remained 400 leagues distant, certain of considerable surprise, that he could allow himself to 1 the new glory which my'people would acquire, h - raa be carried away by impetuosity, as to charge Lord I Chichester with paying ten thousand pounds for the - of the grand- charaaer they Would display. -My suppression of certain letters; and observed upon hopes have not been deceived-e 4 owe particular the mischievous consequences to the administration ;thanks to the Citizens of the departments of the of justice, if Gentlemen allowed themselves to speak 1 Pas de Calais and the North... Frenchmen l'' ever of things which were utterly impossible to procure in I evidence. There had b ee n, he sa id, a very tragic l one that shall oppose you shall be Cianquered . and lamentation over these whom it was averred were .1 reduced to submission. Your grandeur shall be in-;' terrified from coming for on this occasion ; but i I creased by the hatted of your enemiee - . You he aS • this, his Lordship said, wm as erely sit address cal releted to inflame their passions. If, said his Lord- : before you long years of glory and prosperity. el t ia'n cell), you maittiain the high character of British ! have the force and energy of the Hercules 'etf j the, Jurors (of which I have no doubt), your minds, - , ancients.. well poised and equal, cannot be shaken by asser tions, the truth of which have not, nor could i .•" I have united Tuscany to the empire. The not be ascertained. Wright, junior, the p erson ' Tuscans were worthy of it by the mildness 'Of their, united in this indictment, though they have en • charader, by the attachment their ancestors have . deavoured to prove him a partner, is not one : an d i t . . seems as it they wished to confound them. His always - shewn us, and by the services they 'have Lordship then wished, that the character whictehad rendered to European civilization. been drawn by the Counsel for the prosecutioil " History pointed out to me the =dud I ought r mieht have been only the vision of an heated ima- gination. He had drakkn him .as a man aiming at 'to pursue towards Rome ; 'the Popes, become So situations and influence which neither his birth or vereigns of part .of hely, have constantly sheWn his talents intitled him to be trusted with. This- themselves enemies of every preponderating pow e r idea was not embodied, and had no l i ving p erson to whom it applied. His 'Lordship said this was aon the peninsula—they have employed their spi- ~ complicated indictment. The oral tes t i mon y W" ritual powereo injure it.—lt was then demonstrated all on one side, and, manacled as the defendants' to me that the spiritual iafluenee exercised in' ,.he my are, they must abide the pelting of this evid e n ce.— i n S was contrary to `'the His Lordship then entered at large in to the evidence States by a foregovereign; of Mr. Stokes, his rernonsirance with Colonel independence of France, to the dignity and 'safety Wardle, when subpwnaed before the House of Cern- •of my throne. However, as el acknowledge the'ne- Mons, that be must injure his cause, His Lord- cess ity of the spiritual inflow) ce o descend ship particularly remarked , th a t M r. Stokes had said, that in his cross-examination before the House, ants of the first' of the pastors, Lcould not conci he should he examined on other points, as well as ' liate these grand interests, but by annulling ' the - that Mr. Ward:e wished him to be examined on ; • . donative of the French Emperors my peedecessOrs, ' and added, " that as - Mrs.. Clarke 's Attorney, he , did not wish -to do herany prejudice;" Wardle's Cle , and by tinning the Rottikin States to Fraiice. ' ' termination then not to call him at alle—wl _ten s, By the Treaty of Vienna, all Kings n . and Wright Ki - d . . Wright was called, his observing to W ardle that , e s me so many Wright would do him more harm than he himself overeigns, my allies, who have given could e as he had not hesd to conceal what was ne- proofs of the constancy of their friendship, have ac could, --•. : . e cessary. On this his Lordship observed, that 'here, coifed and shall acquire a fresh • of territory.. increase in this transaction, an intention was taken up.-and ~.. (e The Illyrian Provinces stretch the 'frontiers of then abandoned., On what ground, said his Lord- ship, could it be taken up, and on what ought it to my great Empire to the Save. Contignoue to the be . abandoned ? This evidence heard no more of Empire of Constantinople, I shall find myself ins . i.•. the business ; he Dever assigned arty other reason , situation to watch over the first interests of my to • Wardle as an objection to Wright, - than the Commerce in the Mediterranean the Adriatic, *pd danger of his evidence discovering the co nnection . , between him and Mrs. Clarke. Colonel Wardle the Levant. I will protect the Porte, if the Porte then was compelled either to take leave of all withdraws herselfpre- •. n . from the fatal influence of E tensions to character or directly to con tradict this witness, who had so positively sworn t o t h ose . l and. I shall know how to punish her, if she offer things which Wardle had so often and so solemnly ' herself to be governed by conning and perfidious denied before. But what can you think of the counsels. hesitating, recollecting, denial of Wardle, -when ' • • " I have wished to give the Swiss Nation a new opposed to the absolute and direct evidence of Mr. i Stokes ? ! proof of my esteem, by annexing to my titles that IlTis Lerc'ehip rereireiccl the Jury that three per- ,of their Mediator, and thus putting an end to the Sans were contradicted, not on the day they gave uneasiness endeavoured to be spread atnong:that evidence, but to-day ; not by witnesses who were remote, but who then, as well as to day, were pre- brave people. . sent. Wardle, said his Lordship, ack nee ledges that " Holland, placed between England and France, . he gave a discretionary power to his Counsel to eau is equally bruised by them. ' Yet she is the de or not to call witnesses : - .. . tion to the People of the'Uuited Kiegslom, night bouche of the principal arteries of my Empire.— he not have come on that day into Cour', and have - Changes will become necessary ; the safety, of my had this business discussed ? His Lordship again frontiers, f and the well-understood interests of the said, he thought it necessary to retniud them that , , this complicated indictment deprivA the objects of i two countries imperiously require their. every means of defence, and that theretole it rested " S'weden has lost, by her alliance with En g land, with them to consider the evidence whicii had been after a disatrous war, the finest and most important given by the defendants as if they lied that day • of het provinces. Happy would it have been for sworn to it ; and to consider how ;hat evidence had I been contradicted, he asked theth, could they I CCOn- i that nation, if the wiie prince that governs her now, cite it to probability, that Mrs. Clarke would sute-L-t ' had ascended the throne some years sooner. This herself to the danger of public examination before that the alliance of the highest tribunal on earth for the paltry consider- l example proves anew to Kings, time of paying her baker's or her butcher's bill ? he ! Eneiand is the s u rest p resa g e of ruin. said the sum of money which had been given was i “m -y Ally and Friend, the Emperor, of Russia, for the purpose of influencing her evidence, but that . has united to his vast Empire, Fitilaad, Moldavia, were it only a loan, was still improper. His Lordship here concluded, and the Jury, after Wallachia, and a dibiriet of Gallicia. lam not jea n very few moments deliberation, and without luus of any thing that can produce good to that Eni quitting the Box, returned a verdict ef--eNOT ~ pare. My sentiments for its illustrious Sovereign GUILTY. . 0 are in•unison with my policy. " When I shall sliew myself beyond the Pyrenees; the frightened leopard will fly to the ocean, to avoid ehause,defeat, and death. The triumph of my , arms will be the triumph of the genius of good over that of evil; :of moderation, order, and morality over civil was, anarchy, and the bad passions. My friendship and proteaion will, I hope, restore tranquility. and ' happiness to the people of Spain. " Gentlemen; Deputies of Departments to the Le gislative Body, I have directed my Miniver Or the Interior to lay before you the history of the legislation,' of the administration, and of the finances of the' yeai just expired ;- you will see that all the ideas I had conceived, tor the, amelioration of my people, have been followed .with the greatest activity--that in Paris, .as in" the most distant parts of my Empire, the war has not produced any delay - in the public . works. The Members of my Counsel of State will submit to you different projects of. law, and eve... dally the law upon the-Finances ; you will see in it their prosperous condition. I demand of my pe-'ple no new sacrifice, though circumstances have obliged toe to double my military means." LONDON s Printed by RICHARD HARRIS, or No. 4, Martlett.coarr, Bow-street; and Pi:Wished by W I LLIAlvi At Mlt; LK 4%1 SOutis guLIG miNuose At the SuE.Ownce, No. l tx, Stated; where Ativertisenen4s, Orders for the Paper; Letters fer the &War. xr, Vist/Joit), Loon tektreiseia' to the Palace of the Thuilleries in the same pr. ces• sion with which he had left it. An immense populace crowded all the streets anp scraitig, eft/Ming the air ring with shouts and ac clamations. We have received Portuguese Papers to the 26th November, but we are under the necessity of post poning our ExtraEts from them till to-morrow. Thm intelligence they contain, however, is not very im portant. Letters - from Spain state, that the Cardinal BounnoN, who is appointed President of the'Junta, has already began to display great vigour. He has 'ordered au additional Levy, of 25,0 0 0 men, and the Clergy, have agreed to give up their Tithes, and evouglie Church plate, for the public service. ,:z...lstbiglay' the long expeeted prosecution against giiir;i: 44 Nß . 'GOT and Mrs. CLARKE for a Conspi racy came on to be heard before Lord ELLENBO.' gouctt and a Special Jury. We have given an ample report of the trial, from which it appears that ,after a full and patient investigation of the case, the Jtlry, without hesitation; acquitted the Defendants, We are at present prevented by want of room from making any observations on this extraordinary case. Last Thittiday, the Bishop of Lori DON was Waned airernor of the Charter-douse, in the loom of the late Duke of Po ItTi. A D. We have been favoured with the following ex ,tract of a teller, dated Halifax, Nov. 5, 1809, giv lug an account of the late mutiny on board the Co{ ltitnbini-." An alarming mutiny was diacovered in'tnue onboard the Columbine. It was headed by the'bowain and carpenter, whose intention was tei , haVe:Murdered the whole of the 0, liters, and take& the brig to America: The boatswain and six risen have been hung . here ; four of them in chains; the carpenter transported for fourteen years, seven 'of which he is to be in irons; and a great mop others transported and flogged through the f 16161. --- I suppose it is by far the severest sentence ever pas sed by a Court Martial, but it„Wasnecesiary:to wake' such an example. Captain WILLs shot one of the .men,for refusing to obey his orders."• ,Barbadoes Papers to the 25 t h of= O? Ober reached town yesterday ; in which it is stated, that on the th a boisterous wind occasioned such a heavy swell in the. Bay of Roseau, Dominica, and such a tretnen - Owls: surf in the harbour, that early in the following morning the American brig Greyhound parted cables, an,4 went on shore; and shortly after the ship Su.. sgrA , clt 1 ondop, shored the same fate. The surf ir tOittinuing very high the whole clay, it destroyed the. ship, and valuable cargo.—ln St—Pierre's BOP' the ship 'Fortitude, Captain WRIO•TITSDN, parted her anchors and went on shore. kier masts 'Ate r : immediately cut away to prevent her stranding' S'"At had about '4OO hogsheads of sugar on board . Trinidad, on the 18th, a severe gale was aiso eltP ea -attended" with dreadful thui,dar. wad lighto and deluging rain : by which the crops have been materially injured in many parts of the island. Several 'vessels were driven on shore. l ast The Gold and Silver Medals were assigned . night,. at the Royal Academy, to :the Students-'—' The Medals were given for Arehite&ural designs, but nothing in the departments of Painting sod Sculpture were deemed by the Academy worthy Vononr. ~TOZTiltarytt.--We are sorry to- state that the proceedings at Covent-Garden Theatre last n i g ht,' during the performance of the last set of The Wood - Two, and the whole of Don Juan, were as tumults' ons as on any former occasion, except that ther e were no serious cootests, as no attemrts were made WBs to seize any of the hostile party. The house full. CATALAN' is et:Tag/a to perform at the Subscrir tion Concerts in Edinburgh, which take place lO wads the latter end of this month. As no Candidates have appeared for the vacal lt Professorship of Painting in t he Royal Academy , Mr. FUSEL', it is said, is to read Lectures till some Metnoer shall offer himself for the situation. - Friday, Mr. Fpm. ltichie, carpenter of his Ma jesty's ship Squirrel, was tried by a Court-M,:rtial for drunk mess, and was sentenced. to be dismissed his ship, Yendered incapable .of ever s l aving as an officer 'again, and to serve in such other capacity as the'Cotninander-in-Chief at PortstunUth stionid rett.---Capt. Lea, President. On Wednesday, as John Stapley; a bricklayer's lad, 15 years of age, was returning front Fatlington Farm, about the dusk of the evening, to Haviiil! , near Portsmouth, he overtook two men, when, Pos sessed of the fear of being robbed by them, he ran with groacipeek but had not "proceeded far, whet , he dropped down and expired. The cause of tili s sudden death is attributed to extreine fright. We heartily congratulate the admirers of true ta lent on the appearance of Madame DuDEFFsNo' s correspondence with' D'ALEMBEIiT, MoNTESQUIEt ri - Madame De STAAL,' Sm. The brilliant style of letters can only be equalled by their intrinsic tneriO,' which' 'eat* them to a place in the library of even 6160 tOtieeriture, and justly rank them with inns ° of the celebrated Lady WORTLEY MoNTAGUR. Conic`,. DEC. 6.—On the 22d ult. his .Majesio sloop Phitomei, of 18 guns, which brought hotli e , Lord CoLuNowooes dispatches,.tell a boa t with 13 persons in it, who proved to be the crew ° the American ship Aurora, I,AAC RUNE) Ma , il bound from Portugal. to Co , k, with a large ci: 4o ) 1 salt, which yessei had foundered on. the predeil day in - the Western Ocean, in consequence of 11. springing ti leak. His Majesty's ship Druid, 'Sir Wn..l.tAsz Bo.1.1' 014 ‘ ; in working out of our ha, bow yesterday, fili"f ve says and got agrouod, where s ,, e remained at t wei o o'clock this day. The Druid wds to have w'• oft some vessels cinder envoy a- a as Hy mount , teN F) • c.